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The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians,…The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians,…
The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errors of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially Antinomians in XXX lectures preached at Lawrence-Jury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...The true doctrine of justification asserted and vindicated, from the errours of Papists, Arminians, Socinians, and more especially Antinomians in XXX lectures preached at Lawrence-Iury, London / by Anthony Burgess ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Tho. Underhill, 1651
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
A second sort of Arguments, is from the expressions Gods word useth about Pardon; All which do suppose, That sin goeth before, and that God doth not antidate his Pardon. Such as these are, Remember not iniquity. Now although this be attributed unto God improperly, yet the very sense of the word supposeth, That sins were precedent, and how God by his grace will remember them no more. So the phrase to blot out, supposeth sin was already registered in Gods book. Men do not use to forgive Debts before they be. Throwing them into the sea, what doth this imply? but that sins did appear before, and that in a terrible threatening manner. Covering of sin, How can that be understood, if sin be not with some loathsomeness? Thus we might instance in all the expressions used by Scripture to represent Pardon.
A second sort of Arguments, is from the expressions Gods word useth about Pardon; All which do suppose, That sinne goeth before, and that God doth not antidate his Pardon. Such as these are, Remember not iniquity. Now although this be attributed unto God improperly, yet the very sense of the word supposeth, That sins were precedent, and how God by his grace will remember them no more. So the phrase to blot out, supposeth sin was already registred in Gods book. Men do not use to forgive Debts before they be. Throwing them into the sea, what doth this imply? but that sins did appear before, and that in a terrible threatning manner. Covering of sin, How can that be understood, if sin be not with some loathsomnes? Thus we might instance in all the expressions used by Scripture to represent Pardon.
Thirdly, This truth may be proved from the necessary qualifications required in those that have Pardon, which cannot be unless a man have already committed the sin, as 1 Joh. 1.9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful to pardon. Now confession is always of a thing already extant. How absurd would it be, for a man to go and confess the sins he will commit? This would rather be impudence then humiliation; look over all the confessions made by ⟨p. 249⟩